There are two things about Wickerbird that will smack the listener right in the face the instant one listens to The Crow Mother<\/i>: one, this very much a DIY project, and two, it wants to make the whole experience of folk music sound as earthy as possible, as if it is trying to bring the campfire home. This solo project by Blake Cowan is as stripped down as it can be musically. The acoustic guitar and the vocals are all that The Crow Mother<\/i> is made up of, leaving the music bereft of any rhythmic percussive elements. But though stylistically similar, Wickerbird is no Nick Drake, or even Jos\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez for that matter.<\/p>\n
Considering the DIY nature of this project, there is no website for Wickerbird other than a Bandcamp page with not much information, and bare-bones Facebook page, which has a one line band-description that perfectly characterizes its music: \u201cThe moniker of Blake Cowan\u2019s solo dream-folk project, crafted one rainy day in the wild woods of Washington State.\u201d The songs on The Crow Mother<\/i> are literally played over a backdrop of various sounds of the outdoors \u2013 crickets at nighttime, campfire, distant sound of train horn, critters chirping, falling rain, etc. None of these sounds seem contrived; they all have an organic feel, as if Cowan actually went out on a field-recording mission in the forest.<\/p>\n
Cowan tries to keep the sound of the album as rustic and under-produced as possible, but the music in general has an ethereal \u201cFleet Foxes\u201d atmosphere, with tunes that are moody and gorgeous. Although the songs themselves are stripped-down, Cowan adds airy celestial vocal effects that totally change their dynamics. And with the different bucolic sounds further enhancing the music, the final package is nothing less than a dreamy, awe-inspiring experience that will take the listener on a haunting musical journey through the great outdoors that they will cherish forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":31214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8988],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-42906","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-wickerbird","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42906"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}